Nights, lights and delights
Portland Winter Light (non)Festival features pop-up installations and video projections while minimizing crowds.
If you re looking for something bright to raise your spirits during these tumultuous times and winter nights, you can find it in the Portland area the next couple of weekends.
The Portland Winter Light Festival, which usually features creative light installations around the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Eastband Esplanade and elsewhere, had to evolve in its sixth year because of the COVID-19 pandemic and government safety restrictions. It s now being promoted as the Portland Winter Light (non)Festival and includes a series of installations, video projections and more.
Science Pub: OSU’s Research Presented Virtually
February 3, 2021
Are you curious about how climate change will impact Central Oregon? Or why so many people question climate change? Well, this information and more is available – or soon to be available – through Science Pub, a joint effort between Oregon State University Corvallis and Oregon State University Cascades, where researchers come and share what they have been working on with the public.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the events are now all hosted and attended online. Virtual attendees are encouraged to ask questions and get involved post presentation. And now, no matter if you signed up to attend or not, you can catch each event afterward as they are all made available to view immediately after streaming.
In 2021, the
completely freeÂ
event will be the first in-person event to tiptoe back, a hopeful sign for the days and months ahead, even if this yearâs version wonât look much like its predecessors.Â
For starters, this yearâs eventâwhich
kicks off this coming Friday and Saturday
 from 6 to 10 p.m. and repeats on February 12â13, wonât be clustered around the Eastbank Esplanade and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. That area has traditionally been at its heart, resulting in molasses-slow, bundled-up crowds oohing and aahing at the often-interactive light installations positioned every few feet.Â
Instead, says Alisha Sullivan, the festivalâs director,
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New Year’s Day in Oregon: What’s open, what’s closed to ring in 2021 OregonLive.com 12/29/2020 Rosemarie Stein, oregonlive.com
There may never be a new year welcomed more heartily, but more quietly, than 2021. In Portland, coronavirus restrictions will keep many residents close to home, but if you’re out and about, here’s our list of agencies either closed, or with altered schedules for the holiday:
Public transportation (see text below for New Year’s Eve note):
TriMet: Buses and MAX on Sunday schedule Friday, Jan. 1, (if your bus does not run on Sundays it will not run New Year’s Day) No service on WES.